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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Haig P Bozigian, Encinitas, CA (US);
Guy Gendron, Seattle, WA (US);
Janelle Roberts, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
ProCyte Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
602 48 ; 602 41 ; 602 79 ; 602 56 ; 128156 ;
Abstract
An absorbent dressing for absorbing exudate from a wound is disclosed. The absorbent dressing contains a plurality of dried absorbent hydrogel particles sealed within a porous container. The porous container is non-adherent to the wound, and the hydrogel particles remained sealed within the container after absorbing the wound exudate. In a preferred embodiment, the particles are dried polyacrylonitrile hydrogel particles, and the porous container is in the form of a sachet bag made from nylon, cotton, polyester, polypropylene and the like.